[dba-Tech] So you are holding on to your XP...think again

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Mar 12 10:21:31 CST 2010


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To help Windows XP cope, advanced format drives will be able to pretend they
still use sectors 512 bytes in size. 

"All other things being equal you will have a noticeable hard drive
reduction in performance," said Mr Burks, adding that, in some
circumstances, it could make a drive 10% slower.  
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I can live with that.  Until W7 SP3 when they make it REALLY work with
Access. 

R


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:05 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] So you are holding on to your XP...think again

There is now a fundimental change in the hard drive industry. The new
technology is going to change the sectors size from 512 to 4096. All the
newer OSs are aware of this change but XP is not... so if a hard drive fails
you might just be out of luck.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm

Jim 

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